Mumbai University’s IDOL gets UGC nod

Without approval, admission of 30,000 students was delayed for a month.

The University of Mumbai’s Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) received the University Grant Commission (UGC) recognition for its course on Wednesday evening. With the UGC nod, IDOL will commence with the admission process for its first-year and second-year courses.

Lack of approval had held up the admission process for the past month.

The university’s proposal for recognition of its distance and open courses for 2018-19 was rejected in 2017 after it failed to produce the mandatory National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation. However, after the UGC relaxed the NAAC as a parameter for the approval, IDOL submitted a revised proposal. IDOL had failed to find a spot on the first list of approved institutes released by the UGC in early July this year, which had put the future of nearly 30,000 students at stake.